Refresher: I've Gotten Myself Into a Mess

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🗓️ 24 October 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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From my Call of the Day archives; Wendy offered to take care of her boss at the end of her life, but after devoting her time and effort for several months, Wendy feels like a fool and wants her life back. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Time now for a refresher from my Dr Laura Call of the Day Archives.
0:04.6	Remember, you can hear my live radio program weekdays, 2 to 5 p.m.
0:09.9	Eastern time on Serious XM Triumph 2011.
0:13.7	Wendy, welcome to the program.
0:18.1	Hi, Dr Laura.
0:19.7	Hi, I called you back in November because I was taking care of a terminally ill boss that I had not seen in 21 years, but she had no family and I asked you what I could do to help her you just said touch.
0:36.4	So pretty much November, December, January. She did pass away on February 24th. I was here every day. For 45 days I did
0:47.4	IV for her and I traveled an hour each way. I was able to do that because work was slow at that time and I only did a little
0:58.4	bit of what I could do but I focused mainly on her because she didn't have anybody.
1:04.0	She did have a cousin, they were in Florida for the winter,
1:08.0	but even prior to that, they weren't doing very much for her
1:12.0	because she alienated a lot of people.
1:14.6	If they weren't doing what she wanted, she would just dismiss them out of their life.
1:20.0	For me, I did take her to Florida for a beautiful vacation at Eritts Carlton.
1:29.6	She wanted to go there.
1:31.7	For me, I felt that God would bless me one day for changing the path of her death and two days before she passed away.
1:48.0	I did spend four nights with her in the hospital and brought her home because she wanted to die at home.
2:10.2	But then we realized, you know, she said everything was planned out the funeral everything nothing was done. She had no will taken care of she had no money left in her retirement fund she went through over $93,000 in less than six months. One of her wishes was she had a Rolex watch that her father gave her and she wanted me to place it on her ashes after she was cremated.
2:19.8	But there was no money for cremation.
2:21.8	So I actually had to sell the Rolex watch
2:24.0	to pay for the cremation.
2:27.4	And she was very, what I found out after the fact
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